The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 31
She begged him to advise her what to do, and at the same time refused to allow him to endanger his own life by attempting to rescue her.
Who acts: wife · What happens: beg, advise, do, refuse, not allow, endanger · To what, where: Balna, wife, own life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 advise | mark |
| 5 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 advise | obj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 advise | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 refused | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 refused | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 refused | obl |
| 16 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 begged | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 allow | mark |
| 18 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 refused | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 allow | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 endanger | mark |
| 21 | endanger | endanger | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 allow | xcomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 life | amod |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 endanger | obj |
| 25 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 26 attempting | mark |
| 26 | attempting | attempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 endanger | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 rescue | mark |
| 28 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 attempting | xcomp |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 rescue | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | wife | Balna | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | to-infinitive | wife not said here | wife | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | refuse | past | wife not said here | time | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not allow | to-infinitive | wife not said here | Balna | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | endanger not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | Balna's own life | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | attempt | gerund | wife not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | rescue not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | wife | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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